Bilingual Road Signs -oops

[Alan_W]

Here in Wales road signs have to be bilingual, and councils and government organisations have translators available to give the Welsh terms to be used on the signs.

Unfortunately sometimes the reply from the translators is not checked as it should be.

This road sign in Swansea says in English

"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only".

..........and underneath in Welsh

"I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".



BBC NEWS | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign

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so i guess they used a welsh translator then ?

[Miyazaki]

Originally Posted by Alan_W

Here in Wales road signs have to be bilingual, and councils and government organisations have translators available to give the Welsh terms to be used on the signs.

Unfortunately sometimes the reply from the translators is not checked as it should be.

This road sign in Swansea says in English

"No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only".

..........and underneath in Welsh

"I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".



BBC NEWS | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign

Shows the futility of it all TBH.

99% of the Welsh have spoke nothing but English for 100's of years and now they are trying to reintroduce a dead language.

I'm all for encouraging culture, it just seems like such a waste of time.

[Alan_W]

Originally Posted by Games Guru

Shows the futility of it all TBH.

99% of the Welsh have spoke nothing but English for 100's of years and now they are trying to reintroduce a dead language.

I'm all for encouraging culture, it just seems like such a waste of time.

At least they can spoke English good